Motivational Quotes

Music

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.